BigMikeInAustin

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[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours ago

Smart. The US is going to become an enemy of most of Europe, and already has said the US wants to take over Greenland.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Good! Good luck to the workers!

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

He also emphasized that for common painkillers such as paracetamol and ibuprofen, the EU is entirely dependent on Asia.

One of the main causes of shortages, the auditors in Luxembourg noted, is weakness in supply chains.

Additionally, the EU's internal market for medicines is fragmented and free trade is restricted.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're changing the subject.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Wait, you're taking something Trump said as the truth?

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Taxes do not pay for the USPS. The USPS is fully funded by itself.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Once again Trump is too scared to fire anyone directly. He can only do it behind a social media post. So weird.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 42 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The US does not require the turn indicator to be a separate light from the brake light.

The US has almost no current cars with an orange turn indicator on the rear. The red brake light doubles as both.

When US cars are made for other countries, the separate orange light is added.

America only has 2nd or 3rd world consumer protection.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hershey's has had many reasons to be boycotted over the decades. I'm not aware of any of those reasons being corrected by the company.

I am completely against what Israel is doing to Palestine and against the colonization and genocide being done.

This instance of Hershey's doing business in Israel is a very weak reason to boycott. There are many other obvious reasons to boycott Hershey's.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

This is true.

This is the basis for taxing high sugar convenience food. It was done for cigarettes, and today, consumers overwhelmingly see it as a good program. (Of course tobacco companies lobbied hard against it)

Should there be a line on which products governments deincentivise? High sugar convenience foods have their purpose, but does it outweigh increasing obesity? Should we instead subsidize healthy foods? Or both together?

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Racist Americans are getting their appetite whet seeing brown people getting hurt, and are on the edge of their seat waiting to see Black people get hurt.

 

It's been at 80F / 26C for 10 hours.

There goes $8. Dang.

 

Except it wasn't all the dull because some yahoo decided to save 5 bucks by returning to AutoZone a cheaper part from Amazon.

Took me 2 hours for a 10 minute job because the parts didn't fit, and that snowballed into using so many tools and spare parts to get it all good and solid.

And since I do work on my car, I needed this to be as solid as I could get it because I don't want that pointed hood latch, with 100 lbs of hood to fall 4 feet into the back of my head when I'm in the engine bay and someone or the wind knocks into the car.

I'm still slightly uneasy about it, but maybe that's just the anger. The only AutoZone with this part in stock is 30 miles away, which is where I got it when I had an errand on that side of town. And this part now clearly has some surface level battle scars since I've been working on it. So even if I made the drive, I would be at the mercy of the manager believing me over the guy they already got scammed by.

 

I was lazy, so only did the side mirrors and both front door windows.

I usually just use gas station squeegees, so using the Windex and a cloth towel was a step up and got it really clean.

It's so nice looking out the side mirrors. I keep looking at them and marveling at how nice the world looks. Like when a person gets their first pair of glasses and sees the world in detail for the first time.

It's been a week and I'm still smiling about the clear view. Luckily it hasn't rained in that time.

I only get rain, no snow, so I keep telling myself the side mirror rain guards aren't useful at all for me.

 

Started on one computer mouse needing a new AA battery. Then re-glued the foot pad that had fallen off and was making it rock. While vigorously testing the other foot pads, they came off, and so I ended up re-gluing them all.

Then went one to another mouse and started to clean some dust in the corners of it. Turned out the dust was enough that I had an excuse to take it apart. Then there was enough random tiny fibers/hairs that I couldn't get off that I went to use the air compressor to really get it clean. And re-glued the feet pads here, because, why not.

With as much as I take apart my computer mice, it causes the factory sticky tape to fail. So I actually cut out an access whole where the foot pad covers the hidden screws. And then I can use gel super glue to keep the foot pads down fully without curling.

 

Currently installed is a recent (about 10 years) Harbor Bay 5 blade ceiling fan with 44" blade diameter.

In a box I have a recent (about 10 years) Harbor Bay 5 blade ceiling fan with 52" blade diameter.

Yes, the large blades will run the motor harder.

Would these two fans likely use the same motor, so that I can just swap the larger blades and leave the current motor? Or is there a high chance the motors are sized specific to their blades, and I would need to fully swap the motor to use the larger blades?

The blades appear to use the same connection.

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